Anne-F Jacques: rotating surfaces, objects
Tim Olive: magnetic pickups
Recorded in Washington (Pyramid Atlantic) and Boston (Museum of FIne Arts), November 2015
Cover art by Julie Doucet
Original release on Intonema Records, 2016
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released May 13, 2020
Brian Olewnick:
Recordings culled from two stops on a 2015 tour by the pair, each wielding an assortment of electronics. Rotational devices are clearly in effect (more from Jacques, I think) and provide an effective throb 'n' pulse to undergird the excellent grimy, raw noise that makes up the core language. It's an area explored by many others, a generation of industrial-grade sounds that cycle in varying phases, creating an infernal-factory aura. But it's also one I'm quite partial to, easily imagining myself in such a climate, immersed in the massive sound slabs, aurally buffeted by the whir and clank of rusty gears, the groans of decaying turbines, etc. The first of the two tracks is more in this dense vein, the second imparting a feeling of an abandoned space, the machines still humming but less insistently, neglected, farther along the path to end of their functional life. Good stuff.
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